Do prices include the Japanese consumption tax?

Prices are recorded as published by the source. Treat them as the listed number and handle tax rules in your own pipeline.

Can I track a specific series only?

Yes — a run is scoped by the search terms you provide, so you can follow one series, one maker, or one character.

How often should I re-run?

For volatile collectibles a weekly sample is usually enough to catch a rerun effect; daily is only worth it if you are actively trading.

Japan Market Data › Anime Figure Price Data

Anime Figure Price Data

Figure prices are volatile in a way that is hard to see from a single storefront. A scale figure that sat at retail for a year can double once a rerun window closes, and the market often splits by grade: sealed, opened-displayed, and box-damaged move at very different prices.

Collecting prices from Japanese second-hand and auction sources side by side is what makes that spread visible. The scrapers return graded listings with yen prices, so you can group by condition instead of comparing sealed against opened.

Mandarake Auction Scraper → All Japanese market scrapers →

What you get

`item_name`	Figure name with series, scale and edition detail as listed.
`current_price_jpy`	Price in yen at the time of the run.
`condition`	Grade, so sealed and opened stock can be separated.
`image_url`	Product photograph for quick visual verification of the edition.
`item_url`	Listing URL for forwarding to a buyer or a colleague.

Field names follow the actor's dataset schema and can differ slightly between actors — check the actor page for the exact input and output schema before wiring it into a pipeline.

Use cases

Detect rerun-driven price cliffs by sampling the same search weekly.
Decide whether an opened copy at a discount is genuinely cheaper than a sealed one.
Build an internal price guide for a shop that buys and resells figures.

How a run works

Starting a run: call the Apify API with the actor id fruitful_quintessence~mandarake-auction-scraper, or press Start on the actor page and download the dataset. Check the actor page for its exact input schema — a run is scoped by the search terms you supply, and billing is per result returned (roughly $0.002 per item).

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fruitful_quintessence~mandarake-auction-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerms": ["your", "search", "terms"]}'

FAQ

Do prices include the Japanese consumption tax?: Prices are recorded as published by the source. Treat them as the listed number and handle tax rules in your own pipeline.
Can I track a specific series only?: Yes — a run is scoped by the search terms you provide, so you can follow one series, one maker, or one character.
How often should I re-run?: For volatile collectibles a weekly sample is usually enough to catch a rerun effect; daily is only worth it if you are actively trading.

What you get

Use cases

How a run works

FAQ

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